[LINK] IPv6 vs. Human Security [Was Re: smartphone privacy problems]

[Roger Clarke]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Roger Clarke 
<<mailto:Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au> wrote:
>RFC 4941 is a 2007 retro-fit to mid-late 1990s specs (although,
because of the 'rough working code' norm, it was presumably
implemented by a few players earlier than that).


At 23:04 -0800 30/1/11, Scott Howard wrote:
>RFC 4941 is an updated version of RFC 3041, which was released over 
>10 years ago in January 2001, which in turn was based on a draft 
>that was available for several years beforehand.  This isn't a new 
>feature, and is very well implemented.  (I'm not aware of an IPv6 
>implementation that doesn't support it)
>If there's an issue here it's that RFC4941 is disable by default on 
>many OSes (Linux and OSX to name two, but not Vista/Windows 7), 
>which technically is what the RFC says should occur.  This does need 
>to change, and the RFC4941 behavior needs to become the default on 
>all OSes like it is on Windows.

Finally, something approaching 'good news'!  (:-)}

Thanks Paul, Karl and Scott.  It's been very informative.


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